Jackpot Rewards

Investors: has raised $16.7 million in Series A financing from a group of individual investors including Lynch, Connors, Chuck Clough

Founders or Execs past companies: WNI Inc., Virtual Iron, Cingular

Industry: Consumer Web

Offering Description: Jackpot Rewards will donate half of its after-tax profits to childrenâ??s charities, and two, that everything about the company, from the structure of the rewards program to the rules of its sweepstakes, is designed to maximize the amount the company is able to give away.